Improvement in dust-pan brush-holders



WALTER M. OONGER, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN DUST-PAN BRUSH-HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 126,931, dated May 21, 1872.

" of even date herewith and need not be here repeated. It calls for a broad hook of springbrass or analogous sheet metal secured to the handle. g

I find that the presenceof the hook is greatly in the way of richly decorating or even plainly japanning the dust-pan if it is. attached at an early stage, and that no obvious means of attachment of the hook can be availed of afterward without destroying some of the finished work. Solderin g can be effected, but only at the expense of the destruction of the japanning for a considerable space adjacent.

I get over' the difficulties by providing the dust-pan with means for afterward attaching the hook, then japanning and decorating, and afterward attaching the hook by springing it into its place. The necessary elasticity to al low the hook to perform all its functions as a spring-hook affords a great facility for this mode of attaching. I provide the hook with locking-points to engage in holes in the dust-. pan, and after being forcibly strained to allow it to engage, it retains its place strongly and permanently.

The following is a description of what I consider the best means of carrying out the invention.

The accompanying drawing forms a part 0 this specification.

Figure l is a vertical section, showing the handle fully prepared to receive the springhook. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical section with the spring-hook in place, and Fig. 4 is a plan view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in all the figures.

terial is bent around to form the handle. The central hole a is round, the others are long and narrow, as shown. After the handle is partially formed by the bending of the tinplate, by a bending-machine, or otherwise, a rivet, b, is set in the hole a, being introduced from the inside, and is firmly set by soldering. The result is a projecting spur, formed by the body of the rivet projecting through the hole a.

In this condition the handle is soldered properly to the body A, and all is japanned and decorated ready to receive the springhook. The latter is marked on, and is cut and bent by dies, or otherwise, as shown, so' as to present two points, m and W, adapted to enter and hold firmly in the long and narrow holes, a and a The spring-hook m m m is now forcibly bent by the thumb and finger, or by any suitable tool, to an extent so as not to cause a permanent set, but only to avail of its elasticity to allow the points m and m to be inserted in the holes a a So soon as they are fully in place and the metal is allowed to act by its elasticity and assume the form to which it has been previously set, the hole 11 engages with the projection I) and holds the hook firmly against escaping. It remains strongly attached to and forms a permanent part of the dust-pan. It springs as required to seize and release the brush, but such springing has no effect to disturb its firm attachment to the dust-pan.

The hook may be plated, varnished, bronzed, or otherwise surfaced, at will, asit is exposed to no heat or acid in joining it to the dustpan.

I claim as my invention- The elastic hook piece on formed with a hole, a, and locking parts m m in combination with a dust-pan formed with a projection, b, and recesses a a adapted to serve together, as and for the purposes herein set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 9th day of April, 1872, in the pres,

ence of two subscribing witnesses.

' WALTER M. CONGER. Witnesses:

ARNOLD HoRMANN, WM. 0. DEY. 

